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The blonde Conan just blew me away… What’s MP 7?

I’m really glad you appreciate it. I’d love to have it published in english, some day.

For the discerning comics connoisseur…

Slef-limited OT: An example: "Virus, il mago della Foresta Morta" (Virus, sorcerer of the Dead Forest), one of the few italian comics of fantastic/fantascientific/horrorific theme from the 1930s, published for the first time in 1939 on the italian main Disney tabloid-sized magazine devoted to Mickey Mouse (which hosted realistic stories as well). By one of the masters, Walter Molino. And the first edition in "comic book" form, from 1946 (my own copy):

Thanks Ryan, I decided and went on to scan all of them in full before sending them to Steve. I already prepare the package. Tomorrow, or at worst next Monday I’ll post it. Yes, the art isn’t often stellar already in the original editions, go figure having it traced by an unknown draftsman. In 1945 the quality of the art was already improving at lightspeed in Italy, so these look pretty poor by any standard. If you’d like I can post the full story of issue 7. Hopefully someone has the Keen Detective Funnies V2 #7 to check…

Cool, thanks for the info. Maybe I will register and put my ONLY golden age CGC comic in the database.

Thanks. Your Marvel Mystery are wonderful. I thought you were Andrew, while I see "Mike", are you the same from the site GACollectibles?

As promised here’s the first two pages of issue 7, supposedly the Masked Marvel story from Keen Detective Funnies V2 #7. Badly redrawn, but it would be interesting to see if it corresponds. BTW, the Masked Marvel was translated as "L’Uomo d’Acciaio" (Man of Steel), which would become the name commonly associated with Superman. It also seems Photobucket has messed up my previous images of the covers as I moved them to another folder. I will re-upload them in my original post as soon as I can.

Thanks. I see a good part of the comics are displayed as part of collections, but not for sale. I can’t find the ones you mentioned for sale, for example. Maybe I’m missing something… Does it mean to work also as an archive of slabbed comics?

Seems an interesting site Andrew, but is it just limited to CGC slabbed comics?

Love your posts, Mr. Marty. There are a few issues of Captain Marvel (Fawcett) which I’d love to have.

Wikipedia is not autoritative as an encyclopedia, but it’s handy… http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ediciones_Zinco

Bill this IS beautiful. What an intriguing cover. This character, from when "superhero" was not already a crystallized word, makes you dream of the possibilities. What if the Crimson Avenger had the success of Batman instead of him? At least one of the few interesting things brought in the 1990s was that heroes can be cool even in civil dresses, or with more varied uniforms, and not just the costumes. Thanks Claudio. Beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder That Tec has a pulp style cover. Oversized superhero and odd perspectives seem to fulfill the pulp editors desire to display the hero on the cover as prominently as possible. Yes, unfortunately being Italian I have little familiarity with the majority of pulps, but artists knew their thing. My only pulp is a beautiful Margaret Brundage cover, insides I seem to recall Seabury Quinn and additional awesomeness. In Italy we have had the luck of an amazing book antology (about 20 issues) which selected the best Weird Tales stories. Unfortunately, most of the Golden Age material has never been published (including Timely).

Bill this IS beautiful. What an intriguing cover. This character, from when "superhero" was not already a crystallized word, makes you dream of the possibilities. What if the Crimson Avenger had the success of Batman instead of him? At least one of the few interesting things brought in the 1990s was that heroes can be cool even in civil dresses, or with more varied uniforms, and not just the costumes.

Well, if they managed to do the I.N.D.U.C.K.S., http://coa.inducks.org/index.php with all the flaws and lacks it can have, there may be a possibility… :-) However, from my viewpoint, the main problem is the lack of consistency, vision, and coherence which Marvel has been gradually showing more and more over the years. Without an effective, substantial "continuity" (which is not merely chronological) it’s a dead end task to put together such a database. Luckily, Disney characters can be "hacked", but it‘s easy to wash away and undo, and the learned Disney fan can discern the good from the bad. Stirctly speaking, there is no "continuity" in the Marvel sense.

I think the Italian site hosts just the Editoriale Corno run. The Italian situation should be more or less as follows, if it can be handy: Milano Libri: 1966-67 (published FF#1 and #5 in two supplements of the magazine Linus). Le Maschere: 1966 (published early Sgt. Fury episodes, 13 issues). Editoriale Corno: 1970-1983 Labor Comics: 1985-1986 (just a pair of issues, with X-Men, some graphic novels, like "God loves, man kills" and Epic material). Star Comics: 1987-1994 Play Press: 1987-1994 Comic Art: 1989-1994 Marvel Italia (as a subsidiary of Marvel Comics): 1994-1996 Marvel Italia (as a Panini Comics imprint): 1996-current. As you can see, between 1987 and 1994, until Marvel Comics finally decided to pick up the situation by itself, the Marvel universe titles were shared between three different publishers, with time lags you can just imagine: material from 1979-1989 started to appear simultaneously, putting italian readers into great confusion. Here on Wikipedia there‘s a brief story of Marvel in Italy: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Italia Don’t know about the accuracy of the early information, however.

No offense intended, but it looks more like a sorta scientific experiment on flaws' incidence over periodicals' manufacturing processes rather than a comics-related discussion. If it’s meant as the second, I am just missing the point of it, but I fear I would also if it was meant as the first. On a side note, I think in some way modern books are more delicate than some golden age material, they are annoying to handle/read.

It wasn't dollman..it was under the dollman title, I remember seeing dollman 1 Yes, that was what I was asking, if it was an odd mixup or rather the mexican publisher mixing two different publishers' characters in the same title, thanks. (thumbs u

A Charlton character rechristened "Doll Man" (and with a mimicked Doll Man logo) is quite weird. And in Mexico… Does the issue contain some Quality Doll Man material or they were just daydreaming… Just odd.

Omigosh!

Slightly OT, but I’ve found an image of the impossible-to-find issues of this publication featuring the DC characters, so i wished to show it: The Red Batman is nothing special (Superman in Italy was red all the way in 1947) but Green Lantern looks like Daimon Hellstrom.

Neither I, before finding them. Only in 1947 the same publisher, Edizioni Milano, would have published Superman and Batman on the tabloid-sized journal "Urrà". This is a picture (provided by Marcello Vaccari) of the issues of the same publication I posted in the previous page, featuring the very first italian appearances of Batman and Green Lantern:

I have posted these in the Centaurs thread (in Golden Age). They are possibly the very first editions of american comic books. Digest sized, ugly, 8 pages (yes, eight) and came out very likely slightly after the war. Full explanation in the Centaur thread, here: http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=5983056#Post5983056

@Ryan: Well, since you’ve been the first to ask, if Steve doesn’t mind, I can give one to you, or he may pass one up to you. They are a gift, so I guess he won’t mind so much. I must stress they are really ugly, 'though. I have never seen poorer italian publications. I just treasured them for a minute for their historical value (and rarity) but unless they are the Batmans and Green Lanterns they also have little monetary value. I will post an inside later on.